Iran Review

Abolqasem Qasemzadeh 

We, Iranians, and Pakistan are suffering from common maladies which include terrorism and assassination. Pakistan is currently plagued with the Taliban that has frequently endangered public security in that country through assassinations and bomb blasts. The Islamic Republic of Iran too has been a victim to terrorist groups which avail of financial, military and propaganda support of Iran’s adversaries since the victory of 1979 the Islamic Revolution. For years, we and Pakistan have been hit hard by the Wahhabi thought, which seeks to divide Sunnis and Shias. Petrodollars spent by Wahhabi groups in the Islamic Iran have sought to disturb security in border regions through assassinations and acts of terrorism.

At the beginning of the Iraqi imposed war when Saddam was representing world powers that meant to overthrow the Islamic government, the late Saudi King Fahd had been quoted as saying that funding Saddam’s war against Iran and providing him with political, intelligence and military support of Western countries, especially the United States, would help him to win the war. However, Saddam’s ultimate defeat brought shame to all those powers that are currently carrying the mark of shame for supporting Saddam on their brows. In Pakistan, the division between Shias and Sunnis has had no other fruit but massacre of innocent Shiites and Sunnis and destruction of their living environment. Although, the conspirators have constantly taken advantage of ignorance of some societies, today, both Shias and Sunnis in Iran and Pakistan have understood that Wahhabi thought is closely related to Zionist plots and the interests of foreign colonialist powers.

Baluchestan is a common name for border provinces in Iran and Pakistan, both of which have a province under the same name. Both countries are trying to develop their Baluchestan provinces and help Baluch people by implementing development projects. The government of the Islamic Republic of Iran has been constantly trying to make the common border secure and has never let terrorist groups to consider Iranian Baluchestan a safe refuge after committing acts of terror. We and Pakistanis are well aware of the ominous intelligence and military conspiracies of the UK and the United States in that region and know that terrorism in the region will hit both the people of Iran and Pakistan.

The grouplet known as “Rigi group” in recent years which has been engaged in terrorist activities in the eastern parts of Iran along the common border with Pakistan has attributed itself to a people under the same name in order to make border areas between Iran and Pakistan a safe haven. After every terrorist operation, they flee into Pakistan. Following a recent operation which claimed the lives of a number of Islamic Revolution Guards Corps commanders as well as Baluch tribal chiefs, its criminal nature has become clearer.

Through that treacherous operation, Rigi has proved that he is nothing but a mercenary who aims to kindle wars between Shias and Sunnis in Baluchestan regions of Iran and Pakistan.

Rigi, the leader of the group, had previously told in a press interview that his group was funded by the sheiks in the United Arab Emirates and Saudi Arabia. The Americans had never condemned their operations until recently and the Iranian intelligence service had collected authentic documents which attest to the terrorist nature of the group.

The government of Pakistan boasts about its friendship with the Iranian government and knows that the Islamic Iran considers security in Pakistan its own. Pakistan, therefore, is faced with a serious test. The safe haven that Rigi has found in Pakistan should be demolished and his terrorists should be arrested and put on trial. After the recent operation, the Islamic Republic of Iran has warned Pakistan to be more careful about the role of its intelligence officers and put an end to Rigi group’s activities which also damage national interests of Pakistan. Both we and Pakistan are victims of terrorist currents which are supported by foreigners. Will Pakistan take Iran’s warning seriously? The answer will become clear in the near future.

Source: Ettelaat Persian Daily
Translated By: Iran Review